An obsessed surgeon tries to restore his daughter's fire-scarred face by abducting young women and performing skin graft operations on them. Assisting him is his sadistic slave, Morpho, a "sightless idiot" who occasionally bites his victims and keeps them chained up afterward.

1941. An idealistic, naive German officer in Nazi occupied France is assigned to the home of a middle-aged man and his grown niece. Their response to his presence - their only form of resistance - is complete silence.